Wednesday, March 04, 2009

In this time of a troubled economy...

It seems that our Congress is applying the same logic that has worked so well previously (enacting draconian legislation supposedly aimed at preventing crime that will instead have an out-of-proportion effect on those who don't break the law) to those folks who make their living selling goods online at sites such as ebay (no link; ebay hates gun owners, and we hate them back).

It seems that the criminals are using 21st century technology to sell stolen goods. (I'm shocked.) While I have no doubt this is true, I can't see how making the life of x number of legitimate sellers untenable is going to help in catching the 1/x number of people who abuse the system.

Then again, look how well this has worked with gun laws. I mean, we gun owners are only inconvenienced a tiny little bit in the pursuit of our hobby while it has stopped the bad guys dead in their tracks.